Tuesday 5 February 2013

Ajay's Software Testing Course - Session 2

Hi Readers,

Today, I am here to brief you about the second session of Ajay's Software Testing course (2nd Feb). Its was a cool session on Mind map hands-on. The mission for the session was to learn what is Mind map and how to use it.

At the beginning of the session Ajay taught us, what Mind map is and what is it used for. Now, Mind map is:

1. A visual representation of ideas.
2. It can be used in Software Testing and other fields for idea generation, brain storming and investigation (analysis).
3. It was invented by Tony Buzan.
4. Mind map can be prepared on anything that can represent an idea, like a paper, a white board, an application.
5. Few popular tools for Mind map are: Xmind, Freemind, Blumind, Mindmeister.

Then we started with  Mind map of 99Tests.com's home page. We had around 15-20 minutes for the Mind map creation. I must admit that it was a great experience and I learnt a lot of thing from it. After all the participants submitted there Mind map, Ajay reviewed everyone's Mind map and gave feedback for respective Mind map.

Now, I will list down what I learnt from the session.
1. Preparing Mind map.
2. Working in team.
3. Working under time pressure.
4. Prioritizing work while working under time limit.

I will post herewith the Mind map I created for 99Tests.com's home page using Freemind. Ajay suggested me to use Xmind for better visual representation.


Thanks for reading my blog. I will be back with more learning and interesting stuff soon.

Till then, Happy Testing and Happy Learning!!!

Saturday 2 February 2013

Ajay's Software Testing Course - Session 1

Hi Readers,

In this blog post I will discuss about Ajay Balamurugadas's Software Testing training and what I learnt from his first class.

Ajay is providing this platform for learning Software Testing through his Skype training. Its well designed by him for both freshers as well as experienced folks interested in Software Testing. And the best part of it is, ITS FREE! It is a Skype chat based session, consisting of around 15 sessions. This course will cover the concept and hands-on on Mind maps, Testing Concepts and Tools helpful in Testing. Each session is of  around 75 minutes. For more details about the outline of the course please visit this link.

On 29th Jan, while browsing through Facebook an status update by Ajay caught my attention. It was a Mind map about a new batch starting on 31st Jan by Ajay, for online Software Testing training through Skype.  Immediately I logged into Skype and pinged Ajay, requesting him to add me for his training program. The very next day Ajay pinged me back positively and added me to the newly created Skype group, for the Software Testing training. And I eagerly waited for the training to start on 31st Jan.

Ajay's Software Testing training - Session 1:

The session time is scheduled for 22:00 to 23:15 IST, every week on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. On 31st afternoon I logged into my Skype account to check for any update on the training. The first thing I noticed in the training group is, there were many participants from around the world too, waiting for the training to start. Meanwhile there was an interesting discussion going on between few people about Agile Model (Scrum). I enjoyed the chat and I must say I learnt few new things about Scrum.

At 22:00 hrs, Ajay started the session by welcoming everyone to the Testing training. Everyone introduced themselves and there it began. For the co-ordination with the whole group Ajay made a Google group, through which mails can be sent to all the participants at once. Once all participants registered with the group, Ajay started with Mind map. We came to know about what is Mind map, where it is used etc. Another important thing we did was, we learnt how to co-ordinate with other participants fast and working in team. We paired up as a team for the upcoming tasks. He also suggested few tools for working with Mind maps, for example: Freemind, Xmind, MindMeister. Through the discussion, I came to know about different view of different participants on a topic. Which can be said as an diverse way of learning something. The first session ended quite fruitful and I signed out with a new concept of Mind map with me.

The next session will be about creating a Mind map, while working with a team member. So, I am looking forward for our second session tomorrow.

Before concluding this blog post I would like to share what I learnt from the first session. My learning are as follows:

1. What is Mind map and its uses.
2. How to co-ordinate with other participants real fast.
3. How to form a team.
4. And of course the need of fast typing, as its a limited time session we need to type fast to express our views/ ideas, so that we can have more time for learning.

Herewith, I conclude this blog post. Stay tuned for more updates!

Happy Learning!!!

I am back!!!

Hi Readers,

I am back!!!

The last few months have been busy and I learnt a lot in between. I will share my learning's with you regularly hereon. But before that, I want to apologize for taking so much time for continuing with blogging. And I promise I will be consistent hereon.

I would start with, the ongoing testing training session with Ajay. I would update all the happenings and learning in Ajay's training session class wise. Also I would write a separate blog post on ETL Testing that I have learnt in the past few months.

Lets learn Testing!